Sir Henry de Criwa

                                              THE FAMILY NAME, "CREWE."

In Sir John Crewe's "Crewe Pedigree," which bears evident marks of his correction, the surname of Henry de Criwa, the first Crewe therein named, is spelt "Crica." In the Cheshire Domesday (a book peculiar to that County Palatine, which was formerly preserved amongst the Records of the Exchequer, at Chester, but is said by historians to have been lost,) the name
Crewe was written "Creu." And in ancient charters, and post mortem inquisitions, it was afterwards spelt sometimes "Crue," and at others " Cruwe," the
latter orthography being adopted in an old grant, sans date, (but identified in point of time with the third year of King Edward the Second (1309), through Robert de Holand, who was Justice of Chester in that year, being,
together with Robert de Bulkgley and Hugh de Venables, witnesses thereto,) from Sir Ralph de Vernon to Thomas, son of Patrick de "Cruwo" of a messuage and lands, situate in Hurdleston, (now Hurleston), in the county of Chester; which Patrick de Cruwe (son of Sir Thomas,) in the 3lst year of the first Edward's reign (1303) had engraven about the Lyon of his scal-
"Sigillum Patrichii de Cruwe."